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    incidentalcomics:
“ Stuck in a Book
Happy Summer Reading! Posters are available at my shop. Check out my Patreon page to support Incidental Comics and see pages from my sketchbook.
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    incidentalcomics:

    Stuck in a Book

    Happy Summer Reading! Posters are available at my shop. Check out my Patreon page to support Incidental Comics and see pages from my sketchbook.

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  2. Video post

    She calls on the phone like the old days / Expecting the world

    Don’t fall in love with the moment / and think you’re in love with the girl

    Your face / has got a hold on me

    But your brain / is proper weird

    Are you feeling the same?

    “She’s American” by The 1975 on I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful And Yet So Unaware of It 

    (Source: Spotify)

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    Those were the days.
Class of 1945 Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Louis Kahn

    Those were the days. 

    Class of 1945 Library, Phillips Exeter Academy, Louis Kahn

    (Source: flic.kr)

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    Tags: exeter library

  4. Link post

    “In fiction, men often die as a result of their own actions; they have character flaws that lead to their own downfall. Women, on the other hand, are victims of random violence, of cancer, of someone else’s bad choices. The fact that so few of these stories actually center on the journey of the female character only further highlights their function as a plot device—as little more than a piece of simpering scenery.”

  5. Link post

    “There are two extreme views about punctuation,” he writes, “the first is that you dont actually need it because its perfectly possible to write down what you want to say without any punctuation marks or capital letters and people can still read it youdontevenneedspacesbetweenwordsreally.” The second view is that punctuation is essential, not only to avoid ambiguity but also because it “shows our identity as educated people.” Crystal walks the reader through the history of punctuation, from scriptura continua—that is, words written without spaces between them—to the more punctuated present. In Old English manuscripts, punctuation is idiosyncratic; to denote word divisions, writers tried a variety of strategies: dots, spaces, “camel case” (that is, using capital letters rather than spaces ToMarkTheBeginningsOfNewWords). Then the rise of printing created the demand for a standardized system.

  6. Text post

    6 Fantasy Book Recommendations From Fantasy Authors

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    Tags: lit reader reading list

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    “Anyway, I was researching cockney slang when I came across “thieves cant,” a language of thieves that has this truly incredible Wikipedia entry: “It was claimed by Samuel Rid that thieves’ cant was devised around 1530 ‘to the end that their cozenings, knaveries and villainies might not so easily be perceived and known’, by Cock Lorel and the King of the Gypsies at The Devils Arse, a cave in Derbyshire.” Sadly, Wikipedia goes on to inform me that, while thieves cant most likely “originated in this period, the story is almost certainly a myth.” Bummer, right? But at least we got to read about the fantastically named Cock Lorel and his cozenings and knaveries and villainies (lions and tigers and bears, oh my!).

    “As it turns out, English isn’t the only language with a thieves cant. The Germans had Rotwelsch, which pulls in words from Yiddish and Romany languages to create a verbal hodgepodge. But it’s also a highly literal language without abstractions, so instead of calling winter by an arbitrary name, it’s called “Blibberling,” which is the word for “shivering.” (Also, how great is it that both shivering and blibberling feel incredibly onomatopoeic? Just imagine trying to stammer out blibberling between chattering teeth.) Similar, criminals in Yugoslavia once spoke in Šatrovački to hide their knaveries. Šatrovački seems a little like a Slavic pig-latin, in which words are distorted by changing around the order of the syllables. (For example: trava—grass, often used for marijuana—becomes vutra instead of vatra, meaning fire and pivo—beer—becomes vopi.)

    “It’s amazing how, while these languages were created for mendacious purposes, they’re still so damn beautiful…”

  8. Video post

    libraryjournal:

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    dagny-silva:

    Nancy Drew, an attractive girl of eighteen was driving home along a country road in her new, dark-blue convertible. She had just delivered some legal papers for her father. Her father, Carson Drew, a well-known lawyer in their home town of River Heights, frequently discussed puzzling aspects of cases with his blond, blue-eyed daughter.

    –Nancy Drew #1: The Secret of the Old Clock

    And speaking of Nancy Drew…

    These are amazing! Love Nancy Drew.

    Gif of the Week!

  9. Video post

    millionsmillions:

    Are you ready for Halloween? Check out Electric Literature’s infographic of literary monsters. Pair with our essays on reading House of Leaves on Halloween and long hallways in horror films to get in the spirit.

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    Tags: lit monsters

  10. Quote post

    It is the old idea that while heard melodies are sweet, those unheard are haunting.

    — Colm Tóibín, “Ravishing” via London Review of Books

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    Tags: music history castrati

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